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We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker … coefficients. They are robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The evidence that investment has a long-run effect on …
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dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …
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We study the implications of product market competition and investment for price setting, wage bargaining and thereby …
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The empirical identification of non-linearities in investment relies on how investment is assumed to be separated into … investment which allows us to observe regime separation, an aspect of the data that is typically absent from previous empirical … concentrating investment in a single year. Moreover, there is evidence that investment is more sensitive to fundamentals in the high …
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an alternative way to model whether firms export or not, namely as a firm-level decision akin to an investment decision …
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stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …
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Productivity dispersion across firms is large and persistent, and worker reallocation among firms is an important source of productivity growth. The purpose of the paper is to estimate the structure of an equilibrium model of growth through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a...
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Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market institutions raise the relative wage of unskilled workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest...
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channels of the capital stock effects, i.e. using variables like interest rates or investment ratios in the estimation of …
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In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find various new distortions between private and optimal...
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